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Translators often use different techniques to produce a high-quality, natural translation. Experienced translators may even apply them so freely and flexibly that they forget they’re even using a special technique or strategy. This blog breaks down three of the most frequently used translation strategies: detour translation, repetition, and addition. Detour translation Because of the differences […]

Based on their job title, it’s easy to think that a translator’s only duty is to translate, but a good translator also needs to be a skilled editor. A good translation often goes through several stages of editing, which is just as important as the translation process itself, because it helps refine the work and […]

Translators and interpreters are synonyms in some ways: both need to have a good command of at least two languages in order to do their job. Both decode what’s in the source language and then encode it in the target language. Both are cross-cultural communicators, whose final goal is to tear down language barriers and […]